Venue: Royal Albert Hall Organ
Town: London, GB

The Grand Organ (described by its builder as The Voice of Jupiter) situated in the Royal Albert Hall in London is the second largest pipe organ in the United Kingdom, after the grand organ of Liverpool Cathedral. It was originally built by Henry "Father" Willis and most recently rebuilt by Mander Organs. It has 147 stops and, since its restoration in 2004, 9,999 pipes. Anna Lapwood has served as the Royal Albert Hall's first official organist since 2025. The original organ was built by Henry Willis & Sons in 1871. It had four manuals and 111 stops and at that time it was the largest in the world. The Durham firm of Harrison & Harrison rebuilt the organ in two stages in 1924 and 1933. The organ was extended to 146 stops (including three percussion stops) and converted to electro-pneumatic action. It was still the largest organ in Britain at that time. The 2014 Pink Floyd album The Endless River, includes a track, "Autumn '68", features band member Richard Wright playing the organ in 1969. The recording was made on the afternoon before a Pink Floyd concert at the hall. "Rick asked could he have a go on this great big pipe organ that was built in. So we set him up, set up a couple of mics up and recorded him playing, just jamming away on his own", fellow band member David Gilmour later recalled. In the 1970s, Harrisons refurbished the console and replaced the switchgear in the action, made minor changes to the voicing and added a roof in an unsuccessful attempt to project the sound forward. Composer Wendy Carlos featured the organ during the closing title sequence of the 1982 Disney science fiction film Tron, performed by organist Martin Neary. By the end of the 20th century, the organ was again in a state of disrepair, with a number of stops unusable due to leaks in the wind system, cracks in the soundboards, and other problems. By 2002, it was maintained only through "heroic efforts" on the part of Harrisons and could not be used at all without their staff present, i